A little quilt or two.

Needed a break to make something little yesterday.

Love the colors and the glitz.

 Almost looks like spring with the lime green.
One of my favorite colors.

Back to the two larger thread stitched quilts today.
I started the kiln on a bisque fire at 6 this morning.
Hopefully the rain holds off on Friday to do some Raku.
Can't wait to show you the results.

Wordless Wednesday

Test firing new glazes

64 Tiles & 29 bowls later.

Some of the test glazing I did last week.

So far I have spent 6 full days on this.

A lot of information to work from.

Some turned out too pale.

Had too many blues.

All in all a good start.

 

 The ones below are too pale.

I like the one on the left & the right.
These are Chris Wolff glazes .
Plum, Blue and Oatmeal.
They look great by themselves
and even better in combinations.

 I like the combination of the stripe bowl.
These glazes will be nice dipped on bowls.

 These will definitely be part of my base glazes.

 Love the splatter with the Wolff glazes.

 You can see why this is my favorite so far.

 I also tested some Amoco Potters Choice.
They are good glazes but pricey.
I will continue to formulate my own glazes.
More glaze for less money.

I really like the deep brown black on the top left.

The rust on the bottom left is good too.
Today I will bisque raku pieces to prepare for Friday's firing.
Monday I made a bunch of pins, beads and small forms to apply to paintings.
Next I will mix a matt black for Matt at school.
Young people seem to love black.

Starting 2 new quilts.

The painting that inspires the quilt

The beginning of the process.
Fusing the batiks to the thermolon base.
Doing the base quilting for texture.
Now on to the detail and embellishment with thread.
I am using Artfabrik's thread #12 burnt marshmallow
It makes the best tree trunks.

The inspiration for the second art quilt.

Combining quilting and paint  makes for a good start.
I just love this scene. Looking forward to seeing it completed.
I ordered a some new colors form Artfabrik for this quilt.

I hope to finished these this week.
Than I will go back to the silk quilt dreamscapes.
That is between glazing and firing the kiln.
I will fire Tuesday & Wednesday.

I love gardens.

This lovely garden wall was imported from England.

Several years ago it was used at Navy Pier

 in Chicago for the Spring Garden Show.

Its was finally moved to NW Indiana to this garden Center.

I just love love garden of all kinds.

My daughter  & I spent that  Sunday afternoon enjoying the flowers.

Take some time to imagine you can smell the roses today.

Soon it will happen.

Ready for Raku

April 8th we will do a Raku firing .

We were told to have our green ware ready by this Friday.

So Saturday through Tuesday noon I worked.

I am making some garden art.

This first one is a bird bath.

A simple form.

I threw some simple bowls.

 Than with slab construction I made some abstract forms.

 I made a fish to set in the bird water bowl.

The catch of the day.
Fish to raku.
These will hang on the wall.
Last years fish all sold .
People like fish.

 This wacky thing will be interesting to finish.
I don't know what possessed me.

I will show you the final results on April 9.
Have a great day.
Back to the sewing machine to work on the art quilts.

The start of something new.

With  one of my paintings as inspiration.

I prepared a new base of batik to paint with threads.

This one will be a fall theme.

 All blocked in and ready to stitch.

The next one will be a winter scene.
I will use this painting for inspiration.

 I can see the snow and shadows already.

I ordered some more # 12 thread from Artfabrik.
24 hours later it is here.
Wednesday I will begin to thread paint my next art quilts.
I hope to finish one by the week-end.